This blog shares calls for papers and presentations in the disciplines of Library Science, Information Science, Instructional Design and Technology, Education, including Adult Education, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Other calls may be listed that relate in some way to the above disciplines. It is also a place to find advice about writing, publishing and presenting. To request that your call for papers or presentation be added, send it to dxf19@psu.edu.

The past decades have seen a transformation in the role that information technology plays as an arena for gender relations. It is not just that the roles that men and women play in society have changed, but the role that technology plays in mediating gender behavior has changed too. Moreover, the range of arenas where interactions between genders can take place has expanded, with many new arenas now possible for gender relations that did not exist a few years ago. This book on Gender and Social Computing will target the myriad of issues that are associated with this transformation.

Objective of the Book

This book will aim to provide theoretical frameworks and empirical research findings in the area of gender and social computing. The book will be written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of the role that social computing plays in today’s world and the manner in which it affects gender relations. In particular, the Gender and Social computing book will focus on the impact of technology on gender relations in four arenas: (1) work, (2) Social networking organizations, (3) eDating, and (4) ePolitics, including the effect of information technology on gender relations in grass-root political movements, party politics, eGovernment, etc.

Target Audience

The target audience of this book will be professionals and researchers working in the fields of information, social studies, political science and gender research. The book will provide insights and support students, researchers, and members of the general public who are interested in the impact that technology has on gender relations and the many manifestations that the interplay between the two takes at this point in history.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:

1. IT and Gender at Work

� the behavior of men and women as on-line consumers, service providers, etc.

� the roles that men and women play in virtual teams

� the impact of gender on the IT profession

� information technology as an enabler of leadership for women in various professions,

� The effect of gender on adoption of IT in various professions

� The impact of IT on changing the work/home balance

2. eDating

� The ways in which IT affects the balance of power between consumers of eDating services,

� The ways that technology affects the behavior of eDaters

� The impact of culture on eDating practices

� The manner in which technology shapes different eDating environments

3. Virtual communities and social networking

� Gender relations in a social networking environments

� Gender relations in gaming communities

� Gender relations in virtual communities

� Gender relation in virtual worlds

� Gender relations in social networking environments that are supported by technologies other than the Internet (e.g., cell phones, Internet TV)

4. ePolitics

� Gender issues in IT supported party politics, including in the last US elections

� Gender differences in IT enabled grass-roots politics

� Gender issues in eVoting

� Gender issues in the politics of eGovernment

� Gender issues and the politics of cyber security

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 27, 2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by November 5, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 1, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

Important Dates

January 1, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline

January 8, 2010: Notification of Acceptance

February 1, 2010: Full Chapter Submission

March 15, 2010: Review Results Returned

May 1, 2010: Final Chapter Submission

June 1, 2010: Final Deadline

Inquiries and submissions should be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:

•aspects of quality assurance, efficiency studies, best practices, library 2.0, the impact of Open WorldCat and Google Scholar, buy instead of borrow and practical practices addressing special problems of international interlibrary loan, international currency, payment problems, IFLA, and shipping

•special problems of medical, music, law, government and other unique types of libraries

•new opportunities in interlibrary loan and the enhancement of interlibrary loan as a specialization and career growth position in library organizations

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 30, 2009 for Spring publication or February 8, 2010 for Summer publication. For further details, instructions for authors and submission procedures please visit: http://www.informaworld.com/wild . Please send all submissions and questions to the Editor Rebecca Donlan at rdonlan@fgcu.edu

You are invited to submit proposals for the joint program of the Information Literacy and the Reference & Information Services Sections – Don’t Wait to be Asked: Towards Next Generation Reference Services and Information Literacy – at the 2010 IFLA World Library and Information Congress to be held August 10-15 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your vision of the future of reference and information literacy with librarians from around the world. Proposal deadline is January 22, 2010. Full details can be found at http://www.ifla.org/en/calls-for-papers/1925

Subjects of interest include:

�How do we transform and integrate reference and information literacy into new models of instruction and service?

�How can we identify and understand the future needs of our users?

�How will the relationship and collaboration between librarians and users change?

�What information skills will be needed in 2010 and beyond in all sectors of society?

�How do we transform our users’ computer savvy into the ability to use and evaluate information efficiently, effectively, and ethically?

�What is the role of the library website? How can we move from passive pages to interactive learning tools and valued information assets?

�How can we deliver innovative and effective information literacy support, guidance, and programs to the right people at the right time?

�How will we define and develop the reference and instruction librarians of tomorrow?

Proposals

Proposals should include the following: abstract of paper (max. 500 words); author details (name, institution, position) and brief biographical statement of no more than 50 words. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 22, 2010. Late submissions will not be considered. Submit proposals electronically to Amanda Duffy (burntoak@dsl.pipex.com) and indicate “IFLA proposal” in the subject line. Selected presenters will be notified by February 22, 2010.

Call for Proposals

October 25-27, 2010Baltimore, Maryland

All proposals due by February 15, 2010

Washington DC­The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Virginia Library, the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Planning Committee are pleased to issue this call for proposals for the 2010 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 25-27, 2010. The conference goal is to support and nurture the library assessment community through a mix of invited speakers, contributed papers and posters, workshops, and engaging discussion. The conference is geared toward library and information professionals and researchers with responsibility for or an interest in the broad field of library assessment. This biennial conference builds on the success of the first two conferences held in Charlottesville (2006) and Seattle (2008).

We are pleased to announce that the conference’s five keynote speakers are confirmed:

Conference Topics

The Conference Planning Committee especially encourages topics along the themes of the keynote speakers and other areas of library assessment including:Digital librariesInformation resources and collectionsLearning and teachingManagement informationMethods and toolsOrganizational issuesPerformance measurement and measuresReturn on investment (ROI)ServicesSpace planning and utililizationUsabilityUsage and e-metricsUser needsValue and impact

Presentation Formats

Proposals are invited as either papers or posters. Presentation time for papers should be no more than 25 minutes. Poster sessions are particularly welcome from attendees and specific time will be set aside for attendees to discuss posters with the presenters. The language of the conference is English (bilingual French/English or Spanish/English posters will also be accepted). Accepted proposals will be published in the conference proceedings and PowerPoint presentations and poster materials will be posted on the conference Web site.

Conference Planning Committee

Conference Co-Chairs:

Steve Hiller, University of Washington LibrariesMartha Kyrillidou, Association of Research LibrariesJim Self, University of Virginia Library

John Bertot, University of MarylandSam Kalb, Queen’s UniversityLiz Mengel, Johns Hopkins UniversityMegan Oakleaf, Syracuse UniversityKathy Perry, VIVA ConsortiumBill Potter, University of GeorgiaRoberta Shaffer, Library of CongressAgnes Tatarka, University of ChicagoStephen Town, University of York (UK)

Additional Information

The conference Web site http://www.libraryassessment.org/ will provide complete information about the conference, including plenary and keynote speakers, workshops, registration, and accommodations.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 124 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.

Since the publication of Kimberl� Crenshaw’s formative articles – Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race & Sex (1989), and Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics & Violence Against Women of Color (1994) – the concept of intersectionality has traversed more than a dozen academic disciplines and transnational and popular political discourse, generated multiple conferences, monographs, and anthologies, and animated hundreds of articles and essays. In the twenty years since Crenshaw introduced intersectionality, critiques of identity politics and multiculturalism and, more recently, claims of a “post-racial” era have blossomed. In 2010, we will re-visit the origins of intersectionality as a theoretical frame and site of legal interventions and consider its still unfolding potential for unmasking subordination and provoking social change.

c) Intersectionality and Post-racialism, particularly highlighting the contradicting ways that intersectionality has been positioned as both a precursor to post-racialism and as a critique of its symbolic content;

d) Intersectionality and Transnationalism, specifically recognizing the intersecting dynamics of subordination that sustain, transgress or delineate borders and highlighting discourses that disrupt the premises of globalization, imperialism and international law;

e) Intersectionality Embodied, interrogating how intersectionality plays out in the production of legitimate and illegitimate sexualities, the construction of normative, (de)valued, or able bodies, and the challenges in deploying discourses of rights and recognition as interventionist tools.

All proposals should include the session or paper title, a 300-500 word abstract, the names, affiliations, and C.V.s or resumes of all participants, and any audio-visual requests. Session proposals should specify panel, roundtable, or workshop format. Panels integrating practitioners or advocates, including both junior and senior scholars and/or including graduate or law students, are strongly encouraged.

The deadline to submit proposals has been extended to January 15, 2010.

Co-Sponsors: ACLU Women’s Rights Project, Center for Global Justice- Seattle University School of Law, The Center for New Racial Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Women’s Studies Department

I’m pleased to let you know that the New England Women’s Studies Conference will be held at UMass Dartmouth April 30-May 1, 2010. The conference theme is Teaching Activism: Women’s Studies in the 21st Century.

The conference will include an embedded track for undergraduate presentations. We encourage faculty to create panel submissions and present with their students. In addition, we have secured Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, who are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future, who will facilitate an interactive workshop (free to all conference attendees, both faculty and students) on activism and how to incorporate activism into our everyday lives and teaching. We are also working to secure a keynote speaker who will address activism and global issues in Women’s Studies.

Please see the CFP fulltext below and please share with colleagues. I hope you join us for this exciting event. If you’d like a PDF version of the CFP to post in your department or share with colleagues, please email me off the list at jen.riley@umassd.edu.

Best regards to all,

Jen Riley

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Director, New England Women’s Studies Association

Associate Professor, English & Women’s Studies

UMass Dartmouth

285 Old Westport Road

N. Dartmouth, MA 02747

508.999.8279 (office)

508.999.9235 (fax)

jen.riley@umassd.edu

New England Women’s Studies Conference

UMass Dartmouth, April 30 th -May 1 st , 2010

Teaching Activism: Women’s Studies in the 21 st Century

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

The conference includes an embedded undergraduate student conference that includes a workshop on feminism and a track for presentations of undergraduate research and experiences in the discipline of Women’s Studies. We invite proposals from undergraduate students; faculty and undergraduate panels are especially welcome. Possible topics here include:

Technology has created a shift leading from traditional classrooms to environments unhindered by space or time. Online education has grown rapidly in recent years with nearly four million students taking online courses in the United States alone, and an expected further demand for online education due to the global economic downturn (Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008, http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf ) Those individuals teaching in traditional, online, and hybrid environments must therefore adapt their teaching approaches and communication methods to address the evolution of technology in education. Within this context, computer mediated communication brings about issues and opportunities in education such as new pedagogical approaches, teaching methods, the changing pace of instruction, opportunities for collaboration, and more.

This edited collection will examine the implications and effects computer mediated communication has had on instruction and education. The chapters in this collection will, in turn, provide perspectives that can help instructors/teachers, students, trainers, and other professionals involved in education and training better understand and better address teaching, training, and learning in online environments.

AUDIENCE FOR THIS PROPOSED TEXT

The primary audience for this book would include:

• Professors, teachers, trainers, administrators, librarians, instructional technology staff, and other education decision makers who need to make informed choices about how their organizations can use online media to perform effectively

• Researchers studying online education and the use of online media in educational or instructional contexts (including the growth of international online education practices, or the effectiveness of international online education)

• Managers and decision makers who need to implement or oversee online educational/instructional models or practices or who need to make strategic decisions concerning if and how their organization should adopt or implement online educational/instructional approaches

• Policy makers who need to develop policies and procedures for regulating, accrediting, or assessing online educational practices and the uses of online media in teaching/instruction

RECOMMENDED TOPICS

Prospective subject areas and specific topics for this publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Best practices for developing and implementing online education/instruction

• Changing identities and branding for educational institutions

• Defining the role of online education in today’s world

• Accreditation and assessment of online programs

• Framework of online education and open and distance learning

• Open & distance learning

• Policies and procedures for developing or implementing online education

• Communication strategies in online education and open and distance learning

• Distance or distributed learning, open learning, as well as blended or hybrid

• International distance learning initiatives

• Distinctions between online and on-site learning environments

• Static vs. dynamic online learning environments

• Classroom experiences

• Discussion boards, group dynamics

• Online mentoring

• Online internships

• Service learning in online contexts

• Learning environments

• Supportive technology

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Prospective authors are invited to submit chapter proposals of 200-500 words on or before January 22, 2010. In their proposal, prospective authors should clearly include:

• A 2-4 sentence overview of the general topic area they will address in the proposed chapter

• A thesis statement noting the objective, focus, or purpose of the chapter

• A brief outline of major topics/major sections covered in the proposed chapter

• A 2-4 sentence explanation of how the proposed chapter relates to the overall focus of this book project

• For chapters that will report original research, the author must also include the research question that guided the process and the methodology used to address this question

Authors will be notified of the status of their proposal and sent chapter organization guidelines by March 1, 2010. Drafts of chapters will be due by June 1, 2010.

PUBLISHER

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

The 2010 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions, preconferences and poster sessions for the 13th annual LITA National Forum to be held in Atlanta GA, September 30 – October 3, 2010.

Theme: The Cloud and the Crowd

The Forum Committee is interested in presentations about projects, plans, or discoveries in areas of library-related technology involving emerging cloud technologies, software-as-service, as well as social technologies of various kinds. We are interested in presentations from all types of libraries: public, government, school, academic, special, and corporate. Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology are welcome. Some possible ideas for proposals might include:

� Using virtualized or cloud resources for storage or computing in libraries

� Library-specific open source software (OSS) and other OSS “in” Libraries, technology on a budget

* Globalization and library services – does it matter where your staff or users are?

Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 70 minutes in length and sessions of all varieties are welcomed from traditional single- or multi-speaker formats to panel discussions, case studies, and demonstrations of projects. Forum 2009 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. For projects that will still be in preliminary development in October 2010, we recommend presentations at a lightning talk or other “un-conference”-like activities for which time will be reserved at Forum. A call for these types of presentations and discussions will be issued after February 2010.

New this year:

1. In response to attendee feedback, this year we will be offering “half-session” slots as well as full sessions. This is designed for speakers who do not wish to use the full 75 minutes, but who do not have a partner in mind for sharing the time. The Committee will pair these half-sessions up so that the timing of the Forum remains organized. Please indicate in your proposal whether you are requesting a full or half session. Half sessions should plan on approximately 30 minutes speaking time to allow both speakers time to set up and for Q&A. If you are requesting a full session, you should be prepared to use most of the allotted time.

2. If you are interested in publishing a paper based on your talk in ITAL, you will have the opportunity to indicate that. These proposals will be shared with the ITAL editor.

Presenters are required to submit draft presentation slides and/or handouts in advance for inclusion on the ALA Connect site, and are required to submit final presentation slides or electronic content (video, audio, etc.) to be made available on the Web site after the event.

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) members are information technology professionals dedicated to educating, serving, and reaching out to the entire library and information community. LITA is a division of the American Library Association.